Peter Doherty

Peter Doherty is a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne and the 2013 author of Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning immunity to viruses.

We put fertile farmland under bitumen, compromise agricultural production for open cut coal mining and fracking, and do our utmost to sell coal internationally and dismantle our renewable energy industry.

Then we degrade our research capacity, with cuts to the CSIRO and the Australia Research Council, and limit the entrepreneurial adventurism of graduates by ensuring that they are loaded with debt.

In this de-industrialised Australia led by economic "dries", what will our future look like?